English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Ruspidge

Other OS name in the Parish of East Dean

Historical Forms

  • Ruspatch Meend 1770 Comm

Etymology

, Ruspatch Meend 1770Comm , probably ' brushwood hillside ' , v. rispe , ecg , cf. Phonol. § 24 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement